All Elite Wrestling and Prime Video today announced a multi-year agreement to offer AEW pay-per-view events for purchase to fans across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, beginning with AEW Revolution this Sunday, March 9. Live coverage begins at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET from Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
The deal represents a significant evolution in the distribution of AEW’s content, making AEW’s cutting-edge pay-per-view events more accessible than ever to fans through Prime Video. This includes all AEW tentpole events, including Revolution, Dynasty, Double or Nothing, All In, Forbidden Door, All Out, WrestleDream, Full Gear, and Worlds End. “We are thrilled to work with Prime Video to bring all AEW pay-per-view events to their incredible service, marking a major milestone in the continued expansion of AEW’s global reach,” said AEW CEO, GM and Head of Creative Tony Khan. “AEW pay-per-view events are consistently the most exciting professional wrestling events in the world, and fans will now be able to experience that firsthand through Prime Video beginning with AEW Revolution this Sunday, March 9.” These AEW pay-per-view events join Prime Video’s selection of live sports globally, including Thursday Night Football, NBA, NHL, UEFA Champions League at no added cost on Prime, add-on subscriptions such as FanDuel Sports Network, Max, AppleTV+ and discovery+, as well as a growing portfolio of PPV events, including Premier Boxing Champions.
mullvad + fite tv aew plus :)
$49.99 is still way too high to me, this economy already sucks, and WWE has really ruined the premium event pricing for me.
I am glad they are on Prime though, that’s going to be easier to do if I ever have the extra funds.
WWE does a PPV every single month. Which is nice but also means they are just another episode and that shows outside of the REALLY big events (which are increasingly blood money PPVs but that is a different mess).
AEW having a PPV every few months means they are still big events. I mean, just look at Revolution this Sunday. If you aren’t ridiculously excited for that then you either know nothing of the AEW roster or you don’t actually like wrestling. This DOES fall apart in late Fall/early Winter when you have stuff like All In/Out (although last year was really solid) and everyone is getting ready for NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom. But they still feel pretty special.
That said: Yeah, 50 bucks a PPV is pretty painful. Especially if you are paying for cable/max for the weekly show.
That said: Even if you aren’t comfortable sending payment info over a VPN (and you shouldn’t be), Triller has a decent bundle deal for Revo+Dynasty(?) that comes out closer to 40-ish USD each (and you get last year’s Revo “for free”). Hopefully the Max discount is a lot better but… yeah.
You can get them a lot cheaper if you connect to a VPN and order through Triller in another country. Once the purchase goes through, you don’t actually have to stay connected to the VPN to watch.
I guess this means the Max deal isn’t happening?
PWInsider says it’s not an exclusive deal.
This is not an exclusive deal, just another platform for AEW PPVs to be distributed. They will still be available on PPV, TrillerTV, etc. and will be available for order on MAX later this year as well.
Yay! I really didn’t want to have to give Amazon money.
Not that WB is much better at this point, but…
Does Max have the infrastructure for PPVs?
Not sure, but when the Max deal for Dynamite and Collision started, word was PPVs would soon follow (possibly with a discount for Max subscribers)
